{"id":1344,"date":"2015-12-18T12:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2015-12-18T12:59:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T17:59:13","slug":"week-of-jan-4-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2015\/12\/18\/week-of-jan-4-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of Jan. 4, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Year, 2016!<\/p>\n<p>READING-Unit 5 \u00a0Our 3 week\u00a0<strong>Theme\u00a0<\/strong>is\u00a0<strong>ANIMALS.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Week 1 is\u00a0<strong>ANIMALS WE KNOW.<\/strong> What animal do you like best? \u00a0Why? \u00a0Would it make a good pet? \u00a0How does that animal move?<\/p>\n<p>READING STRATEGY- Recognizing Story Structure<\/p>\n<p>READING SKILL-Make and Confirm Predictions<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll read a story titled\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mama Cat and Her Kittens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>WORDS-(Note: <strong>3<\/strong>\u00a0words this week. \u00a0We will use these words in our writing this week.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is \u00a0is \u00a0 \u00a0because \u00a0 animal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LETTER-<strong>O \u00a0o<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MATH-Calculators<\/p>\n<p>SCIENCE-Comparing and Contrasting\u00a0<strong>Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How they look \u00a0 \u00a0What they eat \u00a0 \u00a0 How they move<\/p>\n<p>WRITING-Our district Writing Prompt will be in 3 weeks and the students will need to write an\u00a0<strong>Opinion Piece.<\/strong> \u00a0To help prepare for this, I will be asking for their\u00a0<strong>opinions<\/strong> on a multitude of topics. \u00a0They will then write a few of their opinions in sentences. \u00a0You can help with this at home. \u00a0Ask them questions, like &#8220;What&#8217;s your favorite cereal? \u00a0 WHY?&#8221; \u00a0<strong>WHY<\/strong> is the opinion part of their answer. \u00a0They need give a reason (opinion) for their favorite cereal choice.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. \u00a0&#8220;<strong>because&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>is not a reason!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Year, 2016! READING-Unit 5 \u00a0Our 3 week\u00a0Theme\u00a0is\u00a0ANIMALS. Week 1 is\u00a0ANIMALS WE KNOW. What animal do you like best? \u00a0Why? \u00a0Would it make a good pet? \u00a0How does that animal move? READING STRATEGY- Recognizing Story Structure READING SKILL-Make and Confirm Predictions We&#8217;ll read a story titled\u00a0Mama Cat and Her Kittens. WORDS-(Note: 3\u00a0words this week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}